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How can microfinance support inclusive growth in MENA?
النسخة العربية من المقالة متوفرة على هذا الرابط [1].
Ranya Abdel-Baki is the former Executive Director of Sanabel [2], The Microfinance Network of Arab countries. Ranya spoke with the World Bank Development Marketplace about the state of the Microfinance sector and Microfinance Institutions (MFI) in the region. Based on her several years leading Sanabel, she also explains why MFIs have been seen by many as the only sustainable and financially viable inclusive business or social enterprise1 model in the region.
Jill Richmond: Can you talk about the impacts of Arab Spring on MFI's in the region, if any, and its direct impact (both sustaining and non-sustaining) on your clients?
Ranya Abdel-Baki: We ran a successful workshop last November where practitioners from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria gathered and shared their experiences, lessons learned and future challenges. Naturally, the crisis impacts vary from country to country, and also within each country impacts sometimes varied amongst MFIs depending on their geographical locations (especially the case for Egypt).
While we have not yet completed the data collection for December 2011, we believe that total outreach for the region is going to stagnate or drop for 2011. From the workshop we made some interesting discoveries. You would think that MFIs would only be focused on institutional survival, but they have been putting their clients' needs ahead of their own. We've seen Enda [3] in Tunisia, for example, providing support - not only to its own clients but also to refugees from neighboring Libya. In Egypt, the First Microfinance Foundation (FMF) [4] organized exhibitions for clients during the revolution to help them market and sell their products during these difficult times. Abyan Program [5], one of the hardest hit MFIs in Yemen, continued disbursements and collections even under circumstances that have forced most of the staff and clients to flee Abyan Governorate.
Jill Richmond: In many interviews you talk extensively about the importance of contingency plans. What other lessons can be taken from the experience of MFIs during the Arab Spring?
Ranya Abdel-Baki: We prepared questionnaires for our clients and actually we are finding not a single MFI had a contingency plan in place prior to the revolutions. Many moving forward are reviewing disbursement policies and are becoming stricter in credit provision and I imagine we will see the overall number of clients either decline or stabilize at the same levels of 2010 in Egypt.
In that survey we have also asked clients whether government or other stakeholders provided support. In most cases, the MFIs received very little or no support from their governments and as such Sanabel's advocacy efforts are also much needed now more than ever.
I think maintaining channels of communications with clients and between MFI management and staff is crucial for an MFI to get through troubling times with the least amount of damage. Also, continuing operations through the challenging times will only strengthen customer loyalty further. Many MFIs have continued to renew loans for clients with good performance to send out the clear message to others that those performing well will be recognized and supported by the MFI through difficult circumstances.
Jill Richmond: Going forward what are the challenges to overcome for a vibrant MFI sector to flourish?
Ranya Abdel-Baki: Regulations regulations, regulations. There needs to be an enabling regulatory environment. Sanabel will be working with GIZ [6] (the German development agency) over the next 3 years to provide a platform for MENA regulators to learn from one another and from other regions about what has worked and how policies can be adapted.
Jill Richmond: The next DM competition will be in Egypt on job creation in rural areas. Can you talk a little bit more about trends in rural supply chain finance, specifically related to agriculture supply chain development (including food processing, agricultural waste management and handicrafts)?
Ranya Abdel-Baki: By geography a lot of finance goes to clients that live in rural areas in Egypt, however, agricultural loans remain modest in size compared to other loans that are used for manufacturing or handicrafts. There is no specific focus in growth in agricultural finance as of yet, but there is interest in a better understanding and development of agricultural finance. The most developed country in the region when it comes to agricultural microfinance is Palestine. In Egypt, there is collective interest but I believe the wait is largely over technical expertise and product development.
Jill Richmond: while some SEs aim to "serve" the poor as a target group, compared to other regions like India, we have seen very few if any SEs in MENA viewing the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) as an opportunity and the poor as clients in areas such as low-cost education or low-cost health services. MFIs have been seen by many as the only sustainable and financially viable SE model in the region that is truly treating the BOP as clients of financial services. What do you think of this phenomenon and why do you think this is the case?
Ranya Abdel-Baki: I do agree that we haven't seen as many SEs in MENA as elsewhere but I believe that we need to distinguish between social entrepreneurship and social business. As coined by Professor Muhammad Yunus, social businesses are not expected to generate any profit for investors so that may be one of the reasons why we haven't seen enough and that all the examples we have seen are of big corporations that are interested in solving a social problem in a particular sector by establishing a sustainable business but with no interest in making profit out of it.
I believe that with microfinance, the success has been in believing and seeing a profitable opportunity in serving poor clients with sustainable financial services. In other sectors, the challenge continues to identify sustainable means of providing social services at low costs such as education and health. Micro-insurance services, for example, have struggled in the provision of this financial service with medical service providers in a way that is sustainable and profitable for the insurance companies.
I think this needs a great deal of innovation and thinking out of the box and confidence that such initiatives are possible. In India, the sheer scale of the populations served has made a lot possible. I think the bigger markets in the region such as Egypt and Morocco may also be at the forefront of greater SE innovation in the future.
Jill Richmond: Where do you see the future of MFIs of the region in the next 3-5 years, and how do you think this may or may not impact SEs?
Ranya Abdel-Baki: I see a need for consolidation. There are hundreds of small MFIs in Egypt and a dozen or so large ones. It makes sense to see MFIs merge together to better serve the sector efficiently. My ideal scenario is that governments in the Arab region will be much more focused on financial inclusion in the coming years, that they will come to see the power of the tool. I hope to see the legal and regulatory systems reflect that commitment to ensuring that everyone has access to those financial tools, and that people come together to build just and prosperous societies throughout the region. The future certainly holds great opportunity for Arab micro-entrepreneurs and for the region as a whole!
Jill Richmond: Sanabel works almost as a syndicate throughout the Arab region. Can you tell me about some of your services? What is Sanabel's strategic plan and vision?
Ranya Abdel-Baki: Sanabel's vision is that all low income people in the Arab region are able to access comprehensive financial services. To achieve this vision, we provide support to microfinance institutions in the region so that they are able to provide diversified services to low income populations at a sustainable and far reaching scale.
As such, one of the key areas of service provision for the network is training and capacity building. We have provided training courses over the past ten years in partnership with various service providers for to support trainers and practitioners. We have also introduced a peer exchange program for MFIs in the region which took place in Jordan and Morocco. We are currently revamping the training department's curriculum to include trainings to cover risk management tools and Islamic microfinance given the changing needs in the sector.
The network undertakes an annual industry survey to collect basic portfolio performance data from all MFIs in the region so we can distill the aggregate performance of the region. We launched a regional report last year including country profiles for Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Palestine, and Lebanon. We will continue to co-write the Arab Benchmarking Report with the Microfinance Information Exchange [7] (MIX) in the future as well as publish white papers and case studies from the region. We are also working now with CGAP [8] on data collection in the region for Islamic microfinance. And we are developing case studies around Islamic microfinance in partnership with Agence Française de Développement [9] (AFD).
The MFI community has come to an agreement on some global principles for client protection and is about to approve universal standards for social performance management. Sanabel was the first organization to introduce the concept of social performance management to the Arab region more than 4 years ago (in collaboration with Oxfam Novib [10]) and has provided trainings and capacity building opportunities to its members since then on how to measure social impact. We have also conducted a number of social audits for Arab MFIs and introduced several tools to Sanabel members, such as Grameen Foundation [11]'s Progress Out of Poverty Index [12]TM.
In addition, Sanabel also manages the Arabic version of CGAP's Microfinance Gateway, which is considered the most comprehensive web-based portal for information on the microfinance industry in the Arabic language.
Strategically, I would like for Sanabel to be the recognized voice for microfinance in our region, and an authoritative and trusted resource for both policymakers and the general public. I am also committed to positioning Sanabel as a resource for public outreach, especially through the media, to increase awareness and correct misperceptions about microfinance. Sanabel has the advantage of learning from others who have been around longer.
For more information about the Egypt Development Marketplaceplace, please visit www.developmentmarketplace.org [13] or albankaldawli.org [14]
1Note: the author intends not to misconstrue entrepreneurial activity for sustenance with entrepreneurship. Sometimes referred to as necessity entrepreneurs [15], they rarely have the skills and resources to sustain, let alone scale up, their ventures. "Microloans are often used to 'smooth consumption' – tiding a borrower over in times of crisis," writes James Surowiecki in The New Yorker [16]. Microcredit is more often a stopgap that borrowers use for sustenance rather than to create the next Google.
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Make a Playdough Mountain
Here's a messy way to draw your youngsters into the meaning of this weekend. Make a mountain out of playdough to tell the story of Jesus' death and then turn it around and you have the tomb he arises from.
This idea can be found in Noel Piper's book, Treasuring God in Our Traditions.
Ingredients for playdough:
- 4 c. of flour
- 1.5 c. salt
- 1.5 c. water
- 1 Tbs. oil
Mix ingredients and knead. Add small amounts of water as needed until the texture is right.
1. Use two backyard sticks bound together with twine to make a cross about five or six inches tall.
2. Shape the whole lump of play dough into a mountain. The size will be determined by the volume of your play dough. Leave an opening on one side into the "cave' that will represent the tomb, using your fist or a soup can to hold the space open.
3. Press the cross into the top of the mountain to form a hole deep enough to stand the cross in. Make the hole a bit larger than the actual stick circumference because the hole will get smaller as the mountain bakes. Set the cross aside.
4. Twist toothpicks into the dough or press fork tines randomly around on the hill to make "footholds" for the stick people.
5. Press the rock that will cover the tomb against the opening, to shape a better fit. Set the stone aside.
6. Bake at 250 degrees for four to five hours. When cooled, color as desired with paint or markers.
Finally, make some figures out of pipe cleaners.
And don't forget to make them leap for joy on Sunday.

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I. In Focus This Week
Wisconsin clerks prepare for April 3 primary
On-again, off-again voter ID law, other issues complicate prep
Election years are busy for everyone who works in the field of election administration, but for the city and county clerks in Wisconsin, 2012 is presenting a new set of challenges in addition to regular preparations.
"It has been an interesting four months preparing for our presidential preference primary on April 3rd," said Kathy Nickolaus, Waukesha County clerk. "We have had new statutory requirements on the administration of elections, new rules from the Government Accountability Board and also laws that no longer were required and I am speaking specifically about the Voter photo ID law, which was ruled unconstitutional."
At the forefront of this is the state's on-again, off-again voter ID law. Currently the law is not in effect following injunctions by two judges. But that could all change before polls open on April 3 so clerks are preparing for every scenario.
"We have trained clerks, who have then trained election inspectors, for both having to provide ID and not having to provide it. They will be able to handle whichever is in effect on election day," said Karen Peters, clerk for Dane County.
On Wednesday, the Court of Appeals certified both pending voter ID cases to the Supreme Court, which according to Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the GAB, could rule before 7a.m. on April 3.
Kennedy said that his office has done extensive communications to municipal and county clerks to keep them apprised of the latest developments.
In Rusk County, the changes have meant additional dollars in already tight budget times.
"It has caused us to back track on a lot of things, we've had to change our training materials for election workers making the election process even more costly then it already is," said Denise Wetzel, Rusk County clerk. "We've had to try and do press releases to keep the public informed, change information on many different web pages, pull publications, etc. that also leads to added cost of wages for people to do all this. "
According to Ginny Dankmeyer, the clerks in her county used 2011 to prepare for 2012.
"We had several elections last year when our poll workers asked for the ID during the soft implmentation. So to go back to not having to ask is minor. Not knowing if the injunction will be overturned before the April election is probably more of a concern." Dankmeyer, La Crosse County clerk said. "The biggest issue is the confusion it is causing with the public. We worked hard to make sure they were educated and informed on this new law only to have it reversed. We are getting calls asking for clarification on the injunction and what parts the injunction affects."
Nickolaus noted that although preparations for the upcoming election did not change much after the ruling against the photo ID requirement, she echoed Dankmeyer's concerns about the impact it may have on voters.
"I believe voters which had an election in February — when voter photo ID was required — may become frustrated with the on-again/off-again requirements," Nickolaus said. "In the portion of Waukesha County that had an election in February only one person forgot their photo ID and voted provisionally."
For the clerks in Milwaukee County, while the change in voter ID law has played a role in preparations, other factors like redistricting and new bilingual requirements have added additional work this cycle.
"It was more time-consuming determining ballot styles based on the recent redistricting due to the fact that most of the voter data bases have not yet been updated reflecting the new districts," said Lisa Catlin Weiner, administrator of elections for Milwaukee County. "Also, it took additional time to prepare the City of Milwaukee's ballot as they are now required to provide ballots in both English and Spanish based on the recent census results."
And once the clerks get through the April 3 primary, it's not over. In addition to the November general election, there are several recall elections on the horizon including a statewide gubernatorial recall tentatively slated for June.
"With all the changes back and forth this has been an extremely busy time for the clerks and I feel they deserve much more credit than they are getting for all their hard work and dedication," Peters of Dane County said. "They are truly amazing."
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The discourse in AMA paddock is palpable. From 2013's surprise revelation that AMA Pro Road Racing's TV package would not cover all the events, to 2014's complete lack of television coverage, there have been serious questions raised about DMG's ability to market the premier road racing series in the United States.
A constantly dwindling calendar of events has caused many to wonder about DMG's ability to organize race weekends, as this year's provisional five-event calendar was marked with the absence of any races west of The Rockies (the motorcycle industry's sweet spot), a move that would cause John Ulrich of Roadracing World to start his own three-event "Superbike Shootout" series (Laguna Seca would later be added to the AMA calendar as a sixth event).
This year was also marked by an exodus of top-level teams (Michael Jordan Motorsports and Erik Buell Racing), as well as marquee sponsors (The Army National Guard and GEICO).
Just recently torrential rain, a field of Superbikes on slicks, and not a red flag in sight caused a dust-up just a few weeks ago at Road America, resulting in a modest investment in publication ink regarding the officiating at AMA Pro Road Racing events, especially in regards to rider safety.
American road racing has long been in decline, but never before has the frustration with the series been so evident across the series' stakeholders of riders, teams, sponsors, fans, and journalists. The malcontent is evident whenever the subject is broached.
No one can say for certain what form American road racing will take for the 2015 season, but things do not seem to be taking a positive direction with DMG's ownership of AMA Pro Racing.
American road racing is in serious danger of fracturing if the Superbike Shootout continues, and it could legitimately collapse altogether if DMG continues operating the way it has to date. As if that wasn't enough, a third option is waiting in the wings: Dorna.


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More than 30,000 children in need nationwide will receive brand new toys and games this holiday season, thanks to generous toy companies that partnered with the Toy Industry Foundation (TIF) to participate in the TODAY Show Holiday Gift Drive.
TIF appeared on the TODAY Show's November 26 episode to celebrate the toy industry's contribution to the gift drive, benefiting dozens of charities across the country. The companies pitched in to donate more than $300,000 worth of toys for families facing financial hardships and children who are sick, living in domestic violence shelters, residing on military bases, or otherwise in need.
The Foundation thanked the following companies: Cartamundi USA, Children of America Dolls, Creations By You, Do-a-Dot Art, Green Toys,
Griddly Games, International Arrivals, International Playthings, Little Pim, McNeill Designs, Orb Factory, Safari Ltd., Savvi, Schleich USA, Smart Gear, Smart Toys and Games, ThinkFun, Ukloo Kids, VTech, WowWee USA, and Wyla, Inc.
TIF has participated in the TODAY Show Gift Drive for the past four years, providing a total of 88,000 toys (valued at more than $900,000).


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I have met researchers who become upset or embarrassed when I have raised the possibility of an out of wedlock birth in their tree or an ancestor who abandoned the family. These emotional reactions can create brick walls in our research. Don't allow your sensibilities to cloud your research!
- Birth out of wedlock/kidnapping/abandonment. Consider these possibilities if name and age discrepancies occur in a family and cannot be easily explained.
I have heard of two instances in which a child was kidnapped by another relative or family friend when the child's mother died in childbirth (yes, kidnapped--taken right out of the cradle without the father's permission or knowledge!).
I have researched a case in which some but not all of the children were placed in an orphanage by parents who were struggling financially.
I have encountered a case in which the researcher assumed that a young woman and small child with the same surname as the household was a daughter in law. However, the young woman turned out to be a daughter who was a single mother and gave her child the family surname instead of that of the birth father.
- Suicide. In the past in some churches, a victim of suicide could not be buried in church yard or consecrated grounds. In those cases, no record was kept by the church of the burial or death.
- Bigamy. I have seen family trees containing men with two simultaneous families (and they were not early Mormons, either).
- Desertion. I have had quite a few researchers tell me about their ancestor who was hard to find because the ancestor deserted the family.
- Criminal/victim. I have spoken to researchers whose ancestors were murderers, and others whose ancestors were victims of murder. Usually, a researcher is "lucky" in both cases, because there are news reports and coroners' inquests that leave a paper trail. However, the families often covered up the story.
- Illness. Both mental and physical illnesses or conditions were often covered up by families.
- Name changes/ Family strife. Even today, I know individuals who have changed their names after an estrangement with their family or other life circumstance (such as a religious conversion). Many of us have encountered name changes in our family tree. There is often a story underlying the name change. The change was not always made by some "Ellis Island official," as the popular myth goes. On the contrary, I've read that the immigration officials were rather careful about the immigrants' names. Most name changes were done by immigrants after they settled in their new land--and often families were divided on the change.


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Do you know what sequestration means?
"I have no idea."
"What the actual word means? No, but I know what it refers to: the budget cuts that are coming."
And those were just a few responses from Bostonians who took the time to respond to the question. Most of the more than three dozen people who were asked — about two-thirds — listened long enough to hear the word "sequestration." Then, headphones were shoved back into ears, cigarettes desperately needed smoking, appointments had to be kept, and conference calls had to be made — on cellphones in the middle of a shopping plaza.
Maybe it is the word, usually preceded by the phrase "so-called," and what it stands for — across-the-board federal spending cuts set to take effect Friday in the country's latest fiscal emergency — that cause eyes to glaze over.
Sequestration is just the latest down-to-the-wire, fasten-your-seat-belts federal financial precipice that has left many Americans scratching their heads in bewilderment. (Think: debt ceiling and the fiscal cliff fiasco.)
"The rational have stopped paying attention," said Erin O'Brien, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Because the budget-crisis-of-the-moment always seems to end in resolution, even if only temporarily, people, she said, think, "They'll figure it out. I have to pay my bills. Visa's due when Visa says."
It all sounds so nebulous that people consumed with the day-to-day rhythms of their lives do not have time to figure it out. Besides, the two factions that seem constantly at odds are bickering yet again about the country's finances, which, O'Brien said, causes people to tune out even more.
There are real implications to the American public if these cuts go through, but, she said, "We have a politic right now where everything is he-said, she-said. It feels like a political game. The chattering class pays attention because they're paid to pay attention."
Walking her two dogs through Boston Common, Margaret Brady said she would like to think that the American public is an educated lot, but when it comes to this subject: "I need a cheat sheet."
The back and forth over taxes, spending, deficit, debt, fiscal cliff, and now sequestration "almost becomes white noise," said Brady, a public relations consultant. "It's like two kids throwing sand at each other in the sandbox."
"Ridiculous" is how Carol Walker describes the current financial conflict, which she knows has to do with the potentially massive cuts.
Walker, 50, who lives in the Financial District, said she's tired of the federal government's inability to collaborate and compromise, which has created yet another political crisis that could hobble important government operations — everything from military readiness to public school teachers to college students' work-study jobs. "We're starting to get emergency fatigue," she said. "I mean, do I think there's some waste? Yes. [But] too many things are an emergency that just don't seem like they should be."
This is more information than 23-year-old Carleigh Baldwin had about the impending reductions. "I have no idea" what sequestration is or what it means for the economy, the second-year law student said.
"You hear a lot of things. 'Oh, it's getting better. Oh, it's getting worse.' At this point, I don't know what to believe," the New England Law School student said, finishing a cigarette at the Back Bay T Station.
"I should be concerned, but there's a lot of other stuff going on, like finding a job."
People will not sit up and pay attention until they can locate the direct impact on their lives — loss of job, loss of income, loss of a Head Start spot for a preschooler, loss of vaccines for needy children, loss of meals for seniors — economists and political scientists say.
But it's not just one thing that will cause public outcry; it must be an accumulation, said Michael J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
The comprehensive impact of sequestration will creep up on people, he said.
"It's virtually impossible to grasp the enormity of this for all but a handful of experts who spend their lives studying something like this," Widmer said. "For most people who don't have a direct involvement in federal programs, it's all sort of a blur."
All of this is not to say that some people did not know a thing or two about the country's current economic plight. A few could even define sequestration — sort of.
"Something about cuts, 3 percent cuts to the budget," said Melissa Buffer, who lives in Roxbury.
"It's a bunch of federal employees asked not to work for a while to save money," said Rob Young, who manages a retirement fund for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
But even the informed were not panicked over what this most recent crisis means for them and their families.
As Abu Abdal-Khallaq explained it, people — especially the impoverished — checked out of the federal financial debate long ago because their bottom line does not seem to change regardless of what Washington does.
"This has been going on so long that people are more complacent when they should be more active," the retired educator and Department of Corrections supervisor said while holding court at the McDonald's in the Roxbury Mall.
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The bronze statue of Peter Pan by Sir George Frampton has stood in Sefton Park since 1928. Unfortunately it had suffered from the effects of previous restorations, pollution and vandalism. Vandals had taken Peter Pan's pipes and had cut a squirrel and a fairy's head off the base of the statue.
In 2001 the sculpture conservation department took the statue to the studio for laser cleaning and repairs. The Victoria and Albert Museum had plaster copies of the missing sections of the statue. Using 3D recording, exact copies of both the fairy head and the pipes were made. A copy of the squirrel was made using more traditional moulding and casting methods. All three pieces were then cast in bronze and reattached to the statue.
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The event will be held at the COBO Center, Room O2-33, One Washington Blvd., Detroit, MI, 48226, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
"We are bringing strong physics content to the NSTA Conference to help enrich physics education in classrooms across the Midwest," said Al Gibson, Presider of Physics Day now retired from Adams High School in Rochester Hills, MI. "We are thrilled to bring this fun day of physics to the people of Detroit. Being in the birthplace of the U.S. auto industry, we are especially delighted to feature topics such as auto engineering, the future of energy use, and how physics education research can improve the effectiveness of teaching."
Highlights of the day include a presentation by Lindsay Brooke, Senior Editor of SAE Magazines and world-renowned author, discussing physics and the latest trends in the auto industry; a workshop by Professor Ernie Behringer of Eastern Michigan University that focuses on possible energy futures for the nation; and a workshop by Professor Brad Ambrose of Grand Valley State University and Professor Charles Henderson of Western Michigan University on improving instruction in physical science. Physics Day is organized by the teachers of the Michigan Section of AAPT and the Detroit Metropolitan Area Physics Teachers (DMAPT).
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Elizabeth Duke announced Thursday that she will step down from the Federal Reserve's board in Washington at the end of August.
She is one of seven board members. Each member is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. A term on the board lasts 14 years, although members can leave before it ends. When that happens, the president chooses a replacement to fulfill the final years of the term.
Duke has been on the board since August 2008. Her term officially ended in January of 2012, but board members can remain until someone is chosen to replace them.
Here are the members of the board:
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
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Author Notes: I got the inspiration of this dish from strawberry shortcake. I had had some strawberry shortcake left over before but it was getting too dry, so I just decided to make breadpudding adding some lemon juice and syrup. Now, I used rhubarb and fresh mozzarella cheese to make rhubarb breadpudding with balsamic reduction instead of using strawberry and cream. – Yoonjoo Lee
Serves: 1
• 1/4 ball fresh mozzarella cheese, cubed
• 1/4 stalk of rhubarb, diced
• 2 slices of whole wheat bread, diced & toasted
• 4-5 basil leaves, chopped and 2 leaves for garnish
• 2 table spoons balsamic vinegar
• 1 table spoon red wine vinegar
• 1 table spoon honey (or sugar)
• Salt
• Freshly ground pepper
• Olive oil
- Combine balsamic & red wine vinegar with honey and bring it to a boil.
- Add diced rhubarb into the sauce pan and simmer it.
- Meanwhile toast the bread with little bit of olive oil.
- Combine rhubarb mixture and toasted bread with chopped basil seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Assemble rhubarb & bread mixture on the plate and put mozzarella cubes on the top of breadpudding.
- Sprinkle with little bit of fresh ground pepper.
- Garnish with basil leaves on top of the mozzarella and serve.
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You can get an insider's look at Maine through its literature. You can attend readings by contemporary Maine authors and find their works at libraries and bookstores. If you're visiting with children, you can join a library story hour or take your kids to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, which has an entire garden dedicated to Maine-related children's literature. You can also visit the locations that may have inspired or been featured in the works of your favorite Maine authors, including:
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- Stephen King: You can take a tour of the horror king's hometown of Bangor.
- Richard Russo, Empire Falls: You can visit Waterville and Skowhegan, which inspired Russo's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
- Ernest Thompson: You visit Great Pond in Belgrade Lakes, inspiration for On Golden Pond.
- Kenneth Roberts, Arundel: You can explore the Kennebunks to experience some of the places mentioned by the Pulitzer-winning historical novelist.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: You can visit Brunswick's First Parish Church, where Stowe first heard the sermon that inspired her ground-breaking work.
- Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist: You can schedule a tour of the Northeast Harbor home of the first woman admitted to the Academie Francaise.
- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring: You can visit the Nature Conservancy's Rachel Carson Salt Pond Preserve in Edgecomb, which protects the area where she researched her 1955 book Edge of the Sea.
- Helen and Scott Nearing, Back to the Land: You can tour or attend a Monday Night Meeting at Forest Farm, the Nearings' Cape Rosier homestead.
- Sarah Orne Jewett, Country of the Pointed Firs: A fictionalized Tenant's Harbor is the book's setting, but you can find out more about Jewett by visiting her South Berwick home.
- Louise Dickinson Rich,We Took to the Woods, The Peninsula: You can cast a line in the Rapid River in the Rangeley Lakes region, then dip a toe in the Atlantic on the Schoodic Peninsula.
- Elizabeth Ogilvie, High Tide at Noon, Storm Tide, The Ebbing Tide: You can take a ferry from Rockland to the offshore islands to experience Ogilvie's Tide Trilogy.
- Ruth Moore, Spoonhandle, The Weir: You can visit The Tremont Historical Society Museum on Mt. Desert Island to begin an immersion into Moore's world.
- Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods: You can paddle the Allagash, tour Moosehead Lake aboard The Kate, and maybe even climb Mt. Katahdin.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Evangeline: You can visit the St. John Valley Acadian historical sites that memorialize the heart-tugging poem.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renaesance: You can hike or drive up Camden's Mt. Battie to see the views that inspired the Pulitzer prize-winning poet.
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- Robert McClosky, One Morning in Maine, Time of Wonder, Blueberries for Sal: You can visit rural Brooksville's blueberry barrens and village, which appear in McCloskey's stories.
- E.B. White, Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan: You can explore Brooklin to see if you can spy the places that might have inspired these beloved children's books.
- Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius, Island Boy, Hattie and the Wild Waves: You can loop around the Pemaquid Peninsula, home to lupine fields, island views and crashing surf.


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Feb 27,2009
Work Daze: a cold-hearted course in Revenge 101
by Bob Goldman
Revenge is a dish best served cold, or so the philosophers say. If you ask me, revenge is also pretty darn tasty when served hot, warm, frozen, or stuffed into the microwave and nuked.
Let's face it, when you're mad as hell at work, and you're not going to take it anymore, there are only a few options open to you. You can stifle yourself, or you can complain to management, or you can right the wrong by doing something intelligent and heroic, like pouring a can of Campbell's Chicken Mushroom Soup into your manager's computer.
If you thought you were the only person who spends their days plotting elegant, elaborate fantasies of revenge, think again. Workplace revenge is so common that two professors, Thomas M. Tripp and Robert J. Bies, have written a book on the subject, "Getting Even: The Truth about Workplace Revenge — And How to Stop It."
Don't buy this book if you think it's a good source of really devilish and totally untraceable ways to get the revenge you so totally deserve. Strangely, the authors seem intent in decreasing the amount of revenge that gets expressed in our daily work lives. Managers, too, will learn how to nip workplace revenge in the bud, though it seems unlikely that many will take Tripp and Bies' advice. If our bosses were even slightly capable of being sensitive and fair-minded, they never would have been promoted.
Still, "Getting Even" does have some interesting information to impart. Like the fascinating fact that the idea of workplace revenge even exists in the highest levels of government service. Or have you forgotten that when the Clintons left office in 2001, administrative staffers removed the "W" keys from computer keyboards so that incoming staffers could not type the nickname "W"?
Too bad they didn't leave the computer keys, and simply remove the new president.
The more popular forms of revenge are less poetic, and include such classics as bad-mouthing the boss, spreading rumors, instigating lawsuits, and sabotaging performance.
While most examples of workplace revenge are destructive in nature, the authors do cite employees who are so enraged about managers who unfairly berate them for poor performance that they "vow to work harder and longer hours to "get even" by proving the boss wrong." Somehow, this seems to defeat the whole idea of getting even, and could actually result in the offending manager being promoted. Still, it could be the only option open to you because you will definitely have to forget about the adopting the classic "slowdown" as a form of workplace revenge. If you worked any slower, you'd be dead.
For anyone who believes that the desire for revenge is the product of a twisted mind, it is illuminating to discover that the real motivation being expressed in your overpowering urge to fill your boss's Gucci briefcase with peanut butter is "righteous anger, a set of emotions that have a moral foundation, reflecting a sense of violation." If true, this means that rather than being ashamed of your obsessive desire to wreak havoc on your boss's leather accessories, you should embrace your truly admirable desire to readdress a moral order that is plainly out of whack.
Of course, the form of revenge you choose does reflect your own individual — and, may I say, quite charming — character disorders. If you have a strong self-image, for example, you could choose the "Private Confrontation," in which you go toe-to-toe with the offender, expressing your feelings honestly and openly. This could be psychologically healthy, but it tends to create a culture of candor and truthfulness, and that could lead to mass firings. Better to take to the high road, utilizing your industrial-strength insincerity to pretend to really like the people you loathe, and spread spurious rumors about them when their backs are turned. Now that's maturity.
For workers who do not wish to carry grudges or nurse revenge fantasies, the book provides a checklist of "Ten Fateful Questions for the Would-Be Avenger." I never got past No. 1, "Are you sure the offender deserves the retaliation?" The authors' point is that what you perceive as a brilliant plot cleverly crafted to humiliate and antagonize could simply be stupidity. It's hard to argue with this reasoning, but I don't embrace it. If we didn't wreak revenge on the stupid, management would get a free pass.
Besides, you already know the best revenge on any company dumb enough to hire you — just keep working there.
Bob Goldman has been an advertising executive at a Fortune 500 company in the San Francisco Bay Area. He offers a virtual shoulder to cry on at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Written by Elizabeth Barrett Friday, 26 April 2013 14:40
Area farmers grateful for rain
Compared to previous years, Dale and Brian Gronewold may be planting corn a few days later than usual.But the father and son farmers are not complaining.
Nearly three inches of rain refreshed parched soil during a thunderstorm April 8 that "has changed the whole spring outlook," Brian said.
"Hopefully the rain won't stop," he said, noting that Monday's precipitation added up to another half inch to help less-than-ideal planting conditions. "Besides farmers, the cattle guys got a chance with pastures."
A lingering drought produced only four inches of rain during last year's growing season, the corn and soybean farmer said.
And below normal snowfall this past winter exacerbated already dry conditions.
Now he said there's enough residual moisture in the earth to get corn growing without having to irrigate like the Gronewolds and other area farmers were prepared to do.
Although the drought isn't over, Brian said soil moisture won't be as much a concern when planting begins.
For large producers, cool soil temperatures are keeping them from getting a start on planting thousands of acres.
If soil temperatures are too cold, planted corn won't grow.
"Last year, guys started in early April," Brian said about an unusual spring and summer with high temperatures and little precipitation.
Most of the corn in Nebraska is normally planted from April 19 through mid May and soybeans throughout the month of May, according to United States Department of Agriculture officials.
While they wait to plant, the Gronewolds have been tilling fields and applying fertilizer.
On Monday, the Gronewolds were getting their tractor and planter ready to go.
"We're also waiting to dry out and warm up," Brian said.
That's likely to lure some farmers into the fields to plant this weekend if temperatures rise into the 70s and stay there for a few days as forecasters are predicting.
Brian, a 2010 graduate of Chadron State College, has farmed full-time with his father for nearly three years.
Hail in 2010 wiped out their corn and soybeans while 2011 brought a bumper crop.
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Wildlife officials say they plan to euthanize a beached sperm whale found off Madeira Beach.
The whale was near death when it was found stranded about 20 feet offshore just north of St. Johns Pass on Thursday morning.
Biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission went to the beach to assist after the agency was alerted.
Spokesman Kevin Baxter says the whale had not moved in a "significant way" in several hours. He says the whale is a deep water species and is not supposed to be close to the shore.
Baxter says the whale is emaciated, with its ribs and skull visible.
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For the past 3 years I was able to get a time slot to interview Phil Libin, Evernote's CEO, during Leweb, a huge conference which takes place in Paris, France every December.
The past interviews I did with Phil are in those episodes 34 (in video), 11 and here (in audio).
This year though, it seems that Phil's schedule did not permit to do an interview for the show. Last year Phil did around 45 interviews at Leweb so I can understand the need to cut back a little.
But on Tuesday evening I received a DM from Phil on my personal Twitter account (yes I am honored to be followed by him) where he asked me if I wanted to meet him for a drink in Paris that evening. You can bet I said yes!
I know that Phil is very involved in the startup scene, he also participates in the Founder Institute which I went through for the Spring semester in Paris. So it's not such a surprise to see him take some time like that. But still, I found it incredibly cool.
I met him at his hotel. It was awesome to be able to talk to such a high caliber entrepreneur for close to an hour. He arrived after midnight but he insisted we took some time to discuss. I was thrilled.
We talked about Evernote of course, about my current full time project with The Guitar Channel and about plenty of others matters.
Here's a pic of a very happy me with Phil just before I left him around 2:00am:
Thanks a ton Phil for being so cool with me and so generous with your time and advice. You rock big time.
Here's the YouTube video of Phil's talk with Loïc Le Meur during Leweb:


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A recent article in the Gotham Gazette documents the perks of a good park, far beyond its immediate function as a facility for recreation and rest. According to "The Central Park Effect", Central Park attracts more than 25 million visitors a year, about one fifth of whom come from outside the city. Spending by these visitors directly and indirectly accounted for $395 million in economic activity. This activity, as well as increases in property values near the park, generated $656 million in revenues for the city in 2007.
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Retina Specialty Institute is opening a new office location in Crestview, Fla. to help treat patients suffering from Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), Diabetic Retinopathy and other vision-threatening retinal diseases. Retina Specialty Institute is a national, FDA-approved clinical trial study center based out of Pensacola, Fla. with offices in Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Gulf Coast.
"Many of our patients in the Crestview, Niceville and surrounding area have had to drive to our Pensacola or Fort Walton Beach offices in order to seek treatments," said Sunil Gupta, M.D., founder of Retina Specialty Institute.
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The new office, opening January 18, 2013, is located at 1299 Industrial Drive, Crestview, FL 32539. Dr. Gupta, Dr. John Myers and Dr. Ryan Tarantola and their staff are currently accepting new appointments for patients seeking treatments.
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'Safe Haven,' starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel, is more of a Gothic chick flick than anything.
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The latest Nicholas Sparks-derived weepfest, "Safe Haven," is being marketed as a Valentine's Day special, but the plot line is closer to a stalker thriller. It's sudsy-scary. It's also not very good, although this may not matter to its core audience. Its director, Lasse Hallström, has objected to the term "chick flick," but if the shoe fits...
He's right to think of the term as limiting, though. No one would seriously call a Jane Austen novel "chick lit." "Safe Haven" is a species of Gothic chick flick: Running-from-danger heroine (Julianne Hough) finds friendly anonymity – and a hunky widower (Josh Duhamel) with two cute kids – in a sleepy North Carolina town. In pursuit is a rabid policeman (David Lyons) who practically froths at the mouth. At least he doesn't turn into a werewolf or a vampire. Grade: C+ (Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving threatening behavior, and for violence and sexuality.)


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Earlier today I had the privilege of speaking to the Richardson, Texas, Rotary Club. The invitation was open-ended so I was able to speak on pretty much anything I chose, related to agriculture, of course.
I picked the importance of the family farm. I thought you might be interested in my observations so I'm publishing it here as a longer-than-usual blog.
The family farm is alive and well.
It's not 40-acres and a mule any longer and it's not a matter of raising enough beans and greens to feed a family and sell what's left to buy necessities. It's not a yard full of chickens, a half-acre of vegetables and a milk cow.
The family farm, like most business ventures in the 21st Century, has evolved.
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In Texas, a family farm may be a 30-acre plot growing vegetables for local markets or a 20,000- acre diversified enterprise with cotton, corn, wheat and grain sorghum—and 200 head of cattle. It can be a ranch that's bigger than some counties. And most are incorporated, as are most small businesses, for asset protection, tax advantages and other reasons.
But it's still family.
Actively engaged
Most of the farmers I know are actively engaged. I don't see many who farm from the seat of a fancy pickup and send the hired hands to do all the work. They plow, they plant and they harvest. They are as hands-on as any business I know. They take few vacations and never at planting or harvest time.
I'll give you an example.
Farm Press sponsors a peanut award every year and takes our winner to a resort in Panama City, Florida, for four days of fun and some education. This year's winner was from South Texas and the meeting occurred in the middle of corn harvest.
"Can't go," he said. "I'll be cutting corn."
That's not unusual. I have never met a group of businessmen—and that's what they are, agricultural businessmen—more devoted to taking care of business.
And the farm almost always passes from one generation to another. Sometimes it's sub-divided among sons—and some daughters—and sometimes I see three generations working together on a farm. It's usually a seamless transition, though problems do crop up occasionally.
That happens in families.
Farmers work hard, harder than most any occupation I've ever heard of. They work long hours. I know many who start planting corn in early March—February down in the Rio Grande Valley—and spend more time on the seat of the tractor than they do in their homes—until the crop is in. Same goes at harvest time. Timing is of the essence and delay can be devastating.
They are up at all hours of the night checking irrigation systems, pregnant cows and wild hogs in the peanut fields.
They despair over drought that saps their energy as it destroys their crops. They pray for rain but fear the hailstorms that often bring it. Wind-blown sand can destroy in minutes plants that took weeks to coax out of the ground and up to a point where making a crop seemed possible.
So they start over. They replant, sometimes to a crop of lesser value but one that will still make in the abbreviated time left in the season. Sometimes they replant again, hoping for better weather.
They are vexed by the vagaries of the marketplace where they have little leverage and few options. The larger operations, with adequate capital, use the futures markets, forward contracts, and options. Some build granaries of their own to hold their crops until prices improve. It's always a gamble, the dice are loaded and Murphy is in charge.
Today's farmer is no hayseed bumpkin fresh off the turnip truck. Most are well educated; many have college educations and all have earned advanced degrees from that school of hard knocks.
They understand soil and what it needs to turn a seed into an ear of corn or a boll of cotton.
They know animals—how to feed them, breed them and how to doctor them when they fall ill.
They know mechanics. Most can tear down an engine that rivals an airplane motor and are artists with a blow torch or welding rod. They adjust equipment to their farms and their style of farming.
They know chemistry. They understand that applying the wrong material to the wrong plant or at the wrong time not only wastes time and money but can also destroy the crop or fail to control the bug or the weed or the fungus that always waits to show itself until the farmer makes a mistake, and then it destroys the crop.
They know electronics. They have learned over the past decade how to retrieve data from satellites and plug it into their computers, then relay it to units on their tractors, sprayers and combines to guide equipment down the same narrow row every time without overlapping where they traveled the last time across the field. They know how well a field is producing as they pluck the bolls from the cotton plants, the ears from the corn stalks. On-board monitors display yields on the go.
They know high finance. Those tractors, those electronic marvels, set them back as much as a quarter of a million dollars. That's for one. A good sized-farm needs several. I saw a combine last week at a new product roll out. Manufacturers' Suggested Retail is about $600,000. Cotton pickers range from a low of about 200 grand to almost a million.
A bag of cottonseed, enough to plant about an acre, maybe a little more, runs about $350. Corn seed is about as high. And that's for one acre. Multiply that by 1,000, not a big farm in the Southwest, and then tack on the diesel fuel required to plow, plant, spray and harvest and the math begins to boggle the mind.
Big numbers
Speaking of math—consider the numbers 9 billion and 40 years.
Nine billion is the estimated population of planet earth in 40 years. Nine billion people who will need to eat and wear clothes—preferably made out of natural fibers. To feed and clothe that many people, farmers will have to increase productivity. They will have to grow twice as much as they do today and they will have to do it on fewer acres because 9 billion people will need places to live, Walmarts to shop in, race tracks and baseball fields to entertain them, and a green spot of grass occasionally to remind their bare feet in late spring what nature used to feel like.
So, who will feed and clothe all those people?
The American farmer. Who else can? Who else will?
China likely will not be interested in providing for more than its own needs. Russia? I don't think so unless we see a monumental mind shift. Australia and Canada will help some, maybe Brazil and Argentina will chip in. But there is no other nation on earth with both the ability and the willingness to feed the world.
But here's the scary part.
Aging farmer population
The average age of America's farmer today is about as old as me. That's more than 60 in case you're wondering. I don't think many of them will still be farming in 40 years. And over the past few decades fewer young people have been willing—or in some cases financially able—to come back to the farm. As I mentioned, farming is an expensive proposition and starting from scratch is just about impossible.
So what's the answer?
For one thing, we need to encourage survival of the family farm, make it easier and more attractive for sons and daughters to come home. I'm not certain how that happens—low interest ag loans, maybe. Tax advantages. I'm no financial whiz—I don't even balance my own check book since my wife discovered my lack or arithmetic ability. But farming needs to be a more sexy occupation.
We need more funding for agricultural research—some basic research. A lot of the tests, crop development and production testing going on now is funded in partnership with corporations. There is nothing wrong with that but we still need agricultural scientists, working independently, with no ties to corporate giants, looking for better ways to grow, manage and harvest crops.
Technology is key
We need more technology. I thought the backlash against genetically modified plants was abating until a few emails I recently received after writing a piece on GMOs. Two or three years ago I had the privilege of talking briefly with the late Dr. Norman Borlaug. If you are not familiar with Dr. Borlaug, he is known as the father of the Green Revolution—advancement in plant breeding, especially wheat, that made it possible for farmers in arid regions to grow grain for hungry people. He is credited with saving 1 billion—that's billion with a B—people with his technology.
When I met him, he told me that genetic engineering would be necessary for the next green revolution.
Organic agriculture will not do the trick. I have nothing against organic fruits and vegetables, corn, cotton, whatever. I think farmers who produce crops without pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or genetic modifications are to be commended for meeting a demand. But organic- only will not feed 9 billion people.
Why not?
For one thing, yields are typically lower. So it will take even more land to produce the same amount of food and fiber that farmers who use GMO seed, fertilizers and approved pesticides at approved and tested rates can make. And we know that 9 billion people will take up some of the land we farm today.
For another, organic requires more hand labor. Without crop protection chemicals someone has to either pick off pesky insects by hand or accept a certain amount of damage and loss. And someone has to chop weeds which, left unchecked, compete for water, sunlight and nutrients from the soil—a big reason why organic yields are lower.
If any of you have ever used a hoe to remove bermudagrass from a watermelon patch you understand the dilemma facing natural weed control. Not many want to earn minimum wage grubbing weeds out of a corn field.
Complex issue
So, feeding 9 billion people has no simple solutions. No single piece of technology, no one new chemical, no one super-productive variety will sustain the planet. It will take a combination of a lot of different technologies to make certain that we have enough food and fiber to meet the needs of 9 billion people.
And I am convinced that the best platform for adapting whatever new system is developed will continue to be the family farm.
In 40 years, the family farm may be bigger, and there likely will be fewer of them. Currently, less than 2 percent of the U.S. population farms. Less than 1 percent actually makes a living from farming and fewer than that account for the bulk of the meat, grains, fruits, vegetables and the fiber we all need.
But family farms have advantages that large, multinational, corporations can't match. They are devoted to what they do; they are dedicated to providing the safest, most abundant, and the most affordable food supply in the world.
And they are driven by a force that few outside their world can understand—a force that makes them strive to pass along their piece of land to the next generation—and pass it down in better shape than they found it.
They are earth's best stewards, the strongest conservationists, the people who sustain us. They are family farmers.
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I have been off on a series of engagements...first, the Zolotow Lecture at the University of Wisconsin (and that, as the previous ones have been, will be available by webcast (google Zolotow Lecture and you'll get to it); then to New York for a fascinating conference co-sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center and the Anna Freud Centre in London. The title of the daylong event was "Fear and Fiction"..and a subtitle that I don't have in front of me, having to do with literature and the inner life of the child. Nine authors, each speaking abut a particular book he/she had written; and six child analysts and/or therapists, looking at the same books from their standpoint. So different from the "..and then I wrote" type of speech I frequently hear...and give. And a different audence as well, with many mental health professionals attending...and perhaps becoming newly aware, some of them, of the vital role that literature can play in the emotional life of a child.
Following that event, back to Boston where I moderated a panel on children's books that make the transition into film...how it happens, how it sometimes fails, why now and then it is a smooth and lasting transition into a different genre with its own strengths. Panelists were Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, who spoke about and showed a clip from SHILOH; Natalie Babbitt, speaking and showing a piece of TUCK EVERLASTING; and Randy Testa from Walden Media, the company that moved HOLES, HOOT, WINN-DIXIE, and NARNIA...among others...into film. He let us peek at a wonderful but sad (sob, sob) scene from CHARLOTTE'S WEB, due out soon.
Speaking of Charlottes, Alfie has a playdate tomorrow with a young corgi named Charlotte. His other best friend is Sophie, and since he is hanging out with girls so often, it is probably good that he has an appointment in early December for, ah, minor surgery. In the meantime, he starts obedience classes tongiht. I suppose they won't deal with the never-chew-up-a-ballpoint-pen issue.
Now, at home, I must tend the daily domestic chores like grocery-shopping which I have not done in much too long...last night it was take-out Chinese for dinner. And there are movies to catch up on. "Little Children" yesterday. Today, a quick sneak off to (speaking of corgis) "The Queen."


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DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Wes Houser went eight complete innings in his first win of the season, leading King to a 5-4 victory over the North Georgia Saints on Sunday afternoon. Jose Sola had a day from the plate and on the mound, going 3-for-5 and ending the game with a strikeout. King is now 4-2 on the season after winnings its first two series of the 2013 campaign.
King (4-2) struck early by capitalizing on a throwing error that put leadoff hitter Jose Sola (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico)) on base. After Sola was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, Stephen Mullins (Bluff City, Tenn./Tennessee H.S.) doubled him home by placing a shot into the right center field gap.
North Georgia (1-5) tied up the game in the bottom of the fourth inning with a run-scoring double. It was King starting pitcher Wesley Houser's lone blemish through his first eight innings of work as the senior right-hander 10 of the next 11 batters he faced thereafter.
Houser (1-1) forced a double play ball and went 1-2-3 to get through his opening two innings before working through his first jam of the game. After walking the leadoff man and allowing a single, he forced nine-hitter Jake McCurry to ground the ball back to the mound where he retired the leadoff man at third. He then forced Jesse Strickland to ground to short where Cody Snyder got the sure out at second before ending the inning with a fly out to center.
The Tornado scored three runs to take a 4-1 lead in the top of the fifth when Landon Weitekamp (Farmersville, Ill.) cleared the bases with a double to the left center field gap. Mullins led the inning off with a walk before senior catcher Josh Huffman (Lynchburg, Va.) painted the left field line for a double to place runners at second and third. With an intentional walk to Garrett Cook, it set the table for Weitekamp's three-RBI extra base hit.
King plated an insurance run in the top of the seventh that proved to be the eventual game-winner. Jose Sola led the inning off with a double to deep right field and was driven home by Cody Snyder's single to right field, giving King a 5-1 lead heading into the eighth.
Houser continued to pitch strong, retiring the side with a 5-4-3 double play ball. He started the ninth inning to go for the complete game but surrendered a two-run home run to cut the gap to two runs. Landon Weitekamp came on in relief but left with one out and runners on first and second for Sola to come in and shut down the Saints' rally.
Sola walked his first batter to load the bases and made Eason Spivey ground out to third, scoring one run and leaving first and second occupied. Sola continued to battle and with nine-hitter Jake McCurry up to plate. McCurry went down 0-2 before fouling off two additional pitches. Sola finished the job and got McCurry swinging on a 1-2 pitch to seal the win and earn his first save as a Tornado.
Houser went eight complete innings and faced two batters in the ninth en route to his first win of the season in two starts. He allowed seven hits and three runs, all earned, while striking out three Saints hitters.
In addition to earning the save, Sola went 3-for-5 at the plate and scored two runs to lead the Tornado offensively. Cody Snyder followed with a pair of hits in four at bats and a RBI. Landon Weitekamp notched three runs batter in with one swing of the bat.
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I like this comic. Seem like the depression phase didn't be long, Samael didn't have time to clean himself. Autumn if used more tact, maybe she probably had a part of pie to eat.
Thinking of that now the seasonal warriors have two warrriors of less to slaughter the demons.I doubt that Autumn will continue that now that her new 'boyfriend' is a half-demon and the cousin of the actual demon king.
This will not stop the prophesies because if you read well: "The arrival of the four seasonal warriors will herald the fall of the demon king.", you notice that there no question of the dead of the demon king or of any other demon. The fall could be interpreted like the lose of the title or a chance or organization in the government. The demon king reigh doesn't seem that stable and the arrival of Winnie doesn't helped at all. Afterall, a good prophetie is blur and can be interpret in many differents way.


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(CNN) - If Black Friday crowds were just too much, or Black Friday deals just weren't enough, shoppers can rejoice in another big day on the retail calendar.
There are some tips and tricks for shopping online and with your mobile device on Cyber Monday, and through the rest of the season.
Cyber Monday has its roots in the old desktop computer and wired internet. Shoppers would return to the office after Thanksgiving holiday, and hop online.
Even with access to the internet in pockets, purses, couches and cafes, retailers say Cyber Monday hasn't lost its luster.
"We know that Cyber Monday is really going to draw the crowds," Vicki Cantrell with Shop.org said.
The National Retail Federation said eight in ten retailers will offer special Cyber Monday deals.
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"Take advantage of deal sites as well as online databases that help collect all that information in one place. It really takes the hard work out of it for you," she said.
Sites like Savings.com and PriceGrabber.com, pull coupons and deals from multiple retailers.
Also, the deep online discounts will go beyond Cyber Monday.
"Last year the days Cyber Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday were all over $1 billion online," Cantrell said.
After cyber week, Harders said she's noticed another trend.
"Around Dec. 15, a lot of discounts on jewelry, handbags, other apparel items. They're trying to clear their inventory, and they know us as consumers are looking to buy all of those holiday gifts," she said.
That times well with the annual free shipping day. Hundreds of retailers will participate on Dec. 18, with delivery guaranteed by Christmas.
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